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To: Rutgers who wrote (23128)	8/11/2004 12:48:35 PM
From: BWAC	Respond to of 306849

<you can go to the local municipal building and look at sales, but that is time consuming and arduous if you d/n live near by.> Online Register of Deeds, augmented by GIS website showing parcels. Impute deed stamp back to price paid.

To: Rutgers who wrote (23128)	8/11/2004 12:49:58 PM
From: Rob Fritz	Respond to of 306849

For New England, this site has a 'recent sales' link which seems to be pretty decent. I haven't looked at it for a while, but I think you have to register. newenglandmoves.com

To: Rutgers who wrote (23128)	8/11/2004 5:35:15 PM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

<<in your experience, what is the best web site for "sales history"? >> There really isn't much of a substitute anywhere, to my knowledge, for the realtime data and research capababilities provided by the more sophisticated Multiple Listing Systems available in some areas of the country, which only Realtors have access to. Our local MLS system incorporates public tax record data, therefore you can search a complete history of sales data for a neighborhood, street, individual property--dating back to the first sale. The alternative to MLS data would be to hunker down at the county clerk's office at your local courthouse and plow through a bunch of deed recordations. Other than that, I can't be of much help. Every time I've ever tried researching my own home's value on one of those so-called nifty websites that you see advertised here and there, all I get is a bunch of irrelevant and/or erroneous data.